Tennessee Recruiting Heating Up With Jake Merklinger 4-Star QB Add, Vols vs. LSU, & Olivier Nkamhoua Enters Transfer Portal l Local Hour
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
5.0 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Chase Thomas is the Sports Renaissance Man, Atlanta Sports Guy & VFL. On today's program, Chase is joined by Rocky Top Insider's Ryan Schumpert and Always College Football's Jack Foster to talk about the Vols vs. LSU series, what's going on with Griffin Merritt, moving Jared Dickey to the leadoff spot, if the Vols can make the CFP in 2023-24, Jake Merklinger committing to Tennessee in the 2024 recruiting class, the Vols not adding top-end RBs, Olivier Nkamhoua entering the transfer portal and much more.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: Ryan Schumpert & Jack Foster
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on local hour number one here on a Saturday morning, Good Begarde Friday, Falls |
| 0:06.2 | LSU, what's going on there for the Base Falls? We've got the college football playoff. Is that |
| 0:13.0 | a realistic option for Tennessee in 2023, 2024? Jake Merklinger entering the boat here for the |
| 0:19.8 | 2024 Tennessee football recruiting class, |
| 0:23.0 | why Tennessee struggles to land top in running backs and why it doesn't matter. |
| 0:28.0 | And then Olivia Kamwa entering the transfer portal as a grand grad transfer and looking at |
| 0:33.1 | what Tennessee basketball is going to look like numbers-wise and rotation-wise going into |
| 0:38.5 | next season. All that and more coming up after this. Peter King. I'd like to plug to Chase Thomas |
| 0:44.8 | podcast. Listen to Chase Thomas. You'll be a smarter sports fan and obviously a much better human |
| 0:52.5 | being. Matt Chernoff from 680 of The Fans, Chuck and Chernoff show here. |
| 0:56.8 | And I want to say thanks for listening to today's episode of the Chase Thomas podcast. |
| 1:01.7 | You can find it on Apple, Spotify, and all your favorite podcast apps. |
| 1:06.3 | Chase Thomas went to Parkview in North Georgia. |
| 1:08.1 | He's a local Atlanta kid and he won't let the Lucaverse Tray thing go. He interned with us back in the day and you'll always remember him. Anyway, definitely go check out Chase Thomas Podcast.com where you can find all of Chase's previous episodes, all of his articles, and do them a solid. Leave him a rating and review if you're an Apple podcast listener reminder to listen to our show chuck |
| 1:27.5 | and turn off Monday through Friday 3 to 7 on 680 the fan and subscribe to my podcast as well |
| 1:32.6 | welcome to matlanta wherever you get your podcasts chase Thomas podcast the chase Thomas |
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| 1:47.7 | Welcome back. |
| 1:51.6 | I was about to say Rocky Top Insiders, but that's not how I do my intro. |
| 1:55.2 | It's Go Big Orange Friday with two Rocky Top Insiders. |
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